338 Quotes by Nisargadatta Maharaj

I ask you only to stop imagining that you were born, have parents, are a body, will die and so on. Just try, make a beginning-it is not as hard as you think.

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

Come to the conclusion: I am unborn, I was unborn and I shall remain unborn.

The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

We grow through investigation, and to investigate we need experience. We tend to repeat what we have not understood. If we are sensitive and intelligent, we need not suffer. Pain is a call for attention and the penalty of carelessness. Intelligent and compassionate action is the only remedy.

The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.

Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as of unsound mind and body.

Just as every drop of the ocean carries the taste of the ocean, so does every moment carry the taste of eternity.

Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.